Strange Passion

The decoration of a house style may vary depending on the personality of its owner. Some are minimalist, rationalist or those that combine styles in one space. A clear example of what is said in the film we see Him by Luis Buñuel, where the combination of different artistic trends give this in every corner of the home of his protagonist.
            In this article, I invite you to discover some of the artistic styles that caused a before and after in the world and influenced the scenery of this film.
            The decoration used in the house of Francisco Galvan de Montemayor (Arturo de Cordova), star of the movie "He" can be traced to a number of artistic and architectural styles very different, but all of them present in the film (photo 1 and 2).
        The first is the Rococo movement that emerged in France in the eighteenth century, is present in the decoration of the walls overloaded and household objects. The second is the Mannerist art movement that peaked in the High Renaissance to the early Baroque to the year 1590, and is seen in the sinuous lines of the arches.
         Third, this Expressionist movement-early twentieth century, which also can be seen in the lines (rolling, Bulgarians and circles) of all household decorative items, which at first glance back to works by Norwegian artist Munch These forms are true representatives of the movement, instability, fears, obsessions, mental and emotional imbalances suffered by the protagonist
        Explanations made on the work "The Scream", argue: "Expressionism in the work of Munch Norwegian, is evident in his depictions of fear, despair, tormented sexuality, jealousy and morbidity". This analysis, it is possible to use it to describe the personality disorders of Francis.
      As shown in figure 3 we note that the environment presents its columns, windows and furniture a lot of lines that represent the tension coils, obsession and the unexpected change of attitude that suffers Francisco, to his wife
        The same trend line, we can observe throughout the home and especially at the entrances to the house, such as arcades, which instead of being in the Roman style, with a trend are mannerist, by the composition of the lines the form, which are mostly brittle and unstable curves very characteristic of that artistic movement and expressionism
       Note that both movements try to reflect through their works emotional crises, social, political and economic difficulties that companies were passing the time.
     The walls not only have divisions with serpentine lines forming boxes, which contain the remaining figures with sinuous form. The constituent objects related to these styles (Figure 6, 7)

Meanwhile the walls also have this type of figure, either in wooden rods, as well as in painting them and decorative objects that compose it (Figure 6). In photographs 7 and 8, we see clearly the same design previously explained, reflected on the wall and francisco bedroom door. As for the columns in the Doric-style stairs by the simple lines that make up the capital and spine.
        The character's mental instability is clearly displayed in regards decoration, all objects, which are characterized by heavily loaded in their designs, sinuous owners often intertwined and decorated with flowers are clear examples of disorders personality suffered by the protagonist.
       It add a detail, detailed artistic movements here are not all what we can find in the scenery used in the film simply put Him Only careful at

                                                                                  By. Journalist Maria Florencia Ferreyro




Title; HIM; Color: White and black, Year: 1953 Length: 91 min. Country: Mexico; Production: Overseas Films, Drama psychological Address: Luis Buñuel; Screenplay: Luis Buñuel and Luis Alcoriza on the novel by Mercedes Pinto, Set Design: Edward Fitzgerald; Decorator: Pablo Francisco Galván Galván Montemayor Cast: Arturo de Cordova, Gloria: Delia Garcés; Engineer Raul Conde: Luis Beristain; Lady Esperanza Peralta: Aurora Walker, Father Velasco: Carlos Martínez Baena, Paul, foreman, Manuel Donde, Ricardo Lujan: Rafael Banquells, Degree: Fernando Casanova; Guest: Antonio Bravo, Waiter: Leon Barroso Pianist Carmen Rods Dorronsoro, Jose Munoz, Manuel Casanueva, Alvaro Matute; Chel Lopez. -Synopsis:Luis Buñuel, in the film "He," tells the story of Francisco Galvan de Montemayor (Arturo de Cordova), millionaire man who despite having it all is not happy, as it lacks the most important thing in life that is the love.One morning during a religious meets Gloria (Delia Garcés), a young woman who is in a relationship with his friend the engineer Raul (Luis Beristain). From that moment, Francisco makes the impossible to separate them until they achieved their goal and marries her.What looked wonderful term being the worst nightmare for Gloria. From the beginning of their marriage, the conduct of Francisco is gradually altering into a jealous and paranoid attitudes that increasingly alienated from his side to his beloved wife.Finally, the marriage ending destroyed. Francis takes refuge in religion becoming monks and Gloria by the couple's son - whom he does not know, 'returns to the arms of Raúl